Dapifer™

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Through a close reading of such elements, it is possible to trace their lineage, and so draw conclusions about origins and trajectories for these motifs. In turn, it is possible for observations regarding the social, cultural, economic, and

Through these uninhabited ruins he glided slantwise. From one channel of light to the next, flying for hours through the moonlight. This spectacle was so overwhelming that it was only afterwards that awoke to the fact that he had not been

Dapifer includes two forms of capital M, with splayed and vertical stems.

Dapifer includes two forms of capital N, with and without a head serif.

Dapifer includes two forms of capital R, with concave and convex leg.

Dapifer's default capital S is bottom-heavy, while the alternate is weighted evenly from top to bottom.

Dapifer includes two forms of capital T, with splayed and upright head serifs.

Dapifer includes two forms of capital U, with symmetrical and inscriptional forms.

Dapifer includes alternate forms of oldstyle figure 1 and 4.

Dapifer includes schoolbook forms of lowercase a, g, and y.

Dapifer includes two forms of lowercase y, with and without a seriffed descender.

Dapifer's italics include an alternate z.

Dapifer includes a canted hyphen.

Dapifer includes tabular figures in all styles.

A

Afrikaans

B

Basque

Bokmöl Norwegian

Bosnian

Breton

C

Catalan

Croatian

Czech

D

Danish

Dutch

E

English

Esperanto

Estonian

F

Faroese

Finnish

French

Friulian

G

Gaelic

German

Greenlandic

H

Hawaiian

Hungarian

I

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

L

Ladin

Latin

Latinized Kurdish

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

M

Maltese

N

Nones

Norwegian

P

Polish

Portuguese

R

Romani

Romanian

Romansh

S

Serbian

Slovak

Slovene

Solandro

Sorbian

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

T

Turkish

W

Welsh

Commissioned by Mucca Design for One Atlantic. Designed by Joshua Darden. Design and production assistance by Noam Berg, Thomas Jockin, Scott Kellum, Lucas Sharp, and Eben Sorkin.

Springing forth from the premise of an unbracketed “Old Style”, Dapifer expresses the canonical serif face within the rational framework of a slab serif.

Fundamental to any treatment of the 20th century serif is the notion that Classicism is itself a Modern invention — only within the past century or so has it been possible to approach book type as a smorgasbord from which to choose one’s favored forms.

Dapifer sallies through this terrain with an eye to agility, sourcing strokes from designers as varied as William Morris and Emil Rudolf Weiss to provide a host of alternate forms with which to define a flexible, precise typographic voice.